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bomb. from. this is not a traditionally democratic or republican issue but rather. a issue of american national security and i am hopeful that we can get that done. barack obama ran on

two legs of buying a new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia despite his posturing music influencing congress. multimillion dollar contracts to supply fuel to us at base in kurdistan get the green light green government and then going investigation on objections from the kurds president. and debate is raging in germany a t.v. show which he's a secret filming techniques to expose internet paedophiles and. news from russia and iran the while this isn't see with me you national thanks for joining us president obama says he hopes the senate will approve the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia by the end of the yeah there assurance comes after russia norway has raised concerns that the outcome of the u.s.

and the ten elections might affect its ratification we have negotiated with the russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms this is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support this is not a traditionally democratic or republican issue but rather. a issue of american national security and i am hopeful that we can get that done and send a strong signal to russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenal. this statement comes after russia's state dream of soaring affairs are amazing it was called it's a recommendation to ratify the deal but also sounds the senate may twenty sixth amendments to their original version signed in april by president medvedev and obama and among them are clauses stipulating the treated doesn't cover deployment of u.s. missile defense system or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads the helm

arguello from the russian federation council says the current recess between the two countries will not be affected and you can watch the full interview dave to our spotlight program by logging on to our website as. we. reset is not in danger we managed to create some substance for the reset we are working hard on the providing military transit and civilian transit to afghanistan through the russian territory we are fighting together against drug trafficking in afghanistan so we are doing a lot and i think it will help democrats and those responsible republicans who are still present in the senate and in the house of representatives to do to move forward in the reset. former u.s. ambassador to the u.s. a son jack mark look says both russia and america needs this start treaty to be

ratified and he can't see any serious obstacles in the way. it is a very good agreement for both countries and ratification i think is very important i don't believe that there is any strong opposition to it in the united sates and i see no reason in substance that there should be any delay over ratification i think most people feel. it will be ratified that the votes are there for ratification and the question is more technical one whether the senate will be in session long enough to do so before the new senate comes in that also is a technical question because the new senate would have to start from the beginning so i think it's very important as an american to get ratified by the current senate and i hope that will happen this is.

a sure celebrating national unity day holiday with a historical roots but also allows people of different social and political opinions to share their ideas. and. the pentagon has awarded a fuel contract worth of a three hundred million dollars to supply its the us air base in kyrgyzstan to a corporation that's under investigation by the u.s. congress the company won't disclose its ownership but there is speculation in the founding of our securities leader. here might be involved the supply deal does

directly goes directly against the requests of the country's president was told by that and steve levine a contributing editor at foreign policy magazine says the cooperation involved in getting in the deal lacks transparency two companies involved mean and red star both of them have a very strange mysterious appearance neither of them has an identifiable office they work through offshore shell thanks in gibraltar and the appearance of this is not if it doesn't look transparent it doesn't look clear and it's not clear why the pentagon would again award the contract to the same company as before how was the government going to respond to this we haven't heard anything as yet but how if the curators decide that they're going to complain about this officially if kyrgyzstan is going to send

a message to the pentagon that we don't accept. mena corp we don't accept red star then i think that to gone would act and perhaps change the contract perhaps it's a bet by the pentagon that it that the status quo can hold these companies came out of nowhere and grab contracts that over the last several years have earned them three billion dollars and now in additional three hundred fifty million dollars it's not clear who really owns them it's not clear who works there who benefits from from the contracts who they're linked to. the allegations are to the former government incidentally the same firms during the regime of us correct were linked to that family and so all of these questions the appearance of this is not positive it doesn't look good for the united states it doesn't look good for the pentagon. debate is raging in germany over a t.v.

show which aims to expose possible into paedophiles by secretly filming that meetings with decoys posing as victims critics including the country's justice minister claim the program flout the law in the pursuit of better ratings but craig has claimed they have to resort to such matters as the law fall short in tackling internet predators also his south. is every parent's nightmare their child is being lured by someone they met on the internet this girl is pretending to be thirteen years old the man at the table is in his sixty's they've been conversing online for we. go from it is you isn't it yes if i'm a little kid and you. went just because. you tell me. the back of your neck may be ok but perhaps that might turn you on but later is

actually an undercover journalist and it turns out the man works for a children's charity he's completely unaware that the meeting is being secretly filmed as part of the german t.v. show a cool tattoo the internet and it's exposing the danger is a sexual predator online in the very beginning we expected it expected to have been to have a very specific. person to be imagined you know what you would really usually magine as a sexual predator you know the guy with the glasses and more here and you know this guy but we've met people from all kinds of society those who praise the show say that the authorities should have been informed straight away especially as in this case the man worked with children and that the chaise designed for a big ratings is the primary motivation the people who took the video clip took the clip in may and broadcast of it in october now and in between there was no

information for any. investigate. officials for police not for the employer employee as well but the producers argue that the reason for having to keep the identity of the men they film secret is due to a major leak hole in the law. chatting on the internet with a child even about cirqus is almost never considered a crime but it is left very unclear what exactly constitutes a criminal action. shockingly under current law unless there is an actual physical assault there's not much that can be done and it's an international problem with many experts openly acknowledging that guidelines are in desperate need of clarification instagram is not a new phenomenon and as a number of children going online grays say there's a danger and the scariest part is that right now there's not much that the police

can do to protect them it seems shaders how often within minutes of going into an online chat room praising as a young girl sexual advances were made if we can succeed with the goal of really changing the law making the approach of minors online for cyber grooming. under. restriction we can avoid those people tracing bootloader. r.t. . people across russia have been celebrating the day of national unity while the event has options as the modern day significance of the holiday which triggers a nationwide reaction to all of the has been following the celebrations. but they have national unity gives people from different political social groups and the ability to post rallies and demonstrations around russia full with their ideas in a public forum well here were most go we've seen people from all different

a litany of organizations raging from people wanting to throw tell feasting to far right nationals the nationalist groups posting rallies some fifty thousand people we're told have been out in the streets of moscow and what's been a poor ingrate state it's been pouring with rain terrible weather but people have been taking to the streets the largest of those gatherings a rally by the pro kremlin do you feel good i say sure now she was doing around twenty thousand people at a parade along the riverbank here and said to most go so plenty of people get out about putting forward their ideas and this is the holiday actually has its roots in sixteen twelve when the people of russia from all around the country came together to expel the polish enlistee raney invaders that applied the country well during the soviet period the beginning of the november holiday was used to commemorate the bolshevik revolution and in recent times we've seen this be called think the

holiday be named the day of national unity today just to celebrate the day will see this as not just people putting forward their own political and social ideas but also people bringing together the past of russia with the present we've seen the head of the russian orthodox church the patriarch he unveiled today and i call on the. field say nicholas that had previously been been lost two decades after it was hidden away during the soviet union period now he's unveiled not snow but in the place where it was before on the kremlin one of the kremlin towers have also seen a very touching reunion between family members of those who fought on both sides of the russian civil will be knighted and meeting here and talking about what went on that beginning of the twentieth century. all of that reporting on the unit today celebrations in russia georgia plans to revamp its ailing agricultural industry by inviting new follows from south africa but in

a minority that the georgian government believes they would find better opportunities far from home and bring investment and your ideas but local farmers fear they trust measures will see them blown out of their own land. in. three years of land but his family barely scrapes by the toggle odds and lives on potato soup all year round one of many farmers struggling to survive in georgia though he has plenty of land he cannot afford to grow anything on it is show us the fuel for the tractor is too expensive the pension i get is forty five years dollars most of this goes towards my medication actually by that i hardly have anything left over. trish water has a heart condition but still works the land to zing straining his health over hunger his neighbor mas is hardly any better off with only metres but he said they gave his american seeds a couple of years ago but they failed to thrive we hardly got any harvest and i

know most of the people in my village just struggling with this about the georgian government has introduced a policy it says will turn all this around it's encouraging huge numbers of south african farmers to come here bringing fresh ideas and expertise but the plans have been met with stiff opposition in the fields of agriculture and politics alike to go to resources for discipline our government is conducting a policy of betrayal of their own country our farmers will be forced to abandon their land because the cannot afford to farm it they don't produce enough to sustain themselves let alone so anything to make a profit. the government appears to be ploughing alone far on this issue but it's shrugged off all criticism and believes the scheme will revive an ailing industry or sarwari will. agree culture. best farmers one of the best farmers in the wall to teach. we

showed them the opportunities what they have if they come in here there may be an influx of as many as forty thousand boers who'll be able to buy as much land as they want but their idea does not go over well with everyone georgian farmers say they feel they're being pushed out of their land by their own government and south african boers don't know what to expect from the land or people and efforts to resolve that will be easy given the distances between the two countries currently south african farmers knowledge about agriculture in their potential new home is sketchy at best they weed industry. that's supposed to be this type of food before i remember correctly they produce our meat in percent of the. meat but this seat is eight years old but i never heard of a hybrid seeds selected with the seeds the first south african farmers are expected to arrive next year and once that happens george and farmers who may lose the land

that feeds them say their future looks bleak it even goes carty ga. have a brief look at some other stories from around the world a place to nine passengers on board has crashed in cuba state media is reporting that the plane was on route from santiago de cuba to the capital have on there when it went down the fate of the passengers including twenty eight foreigners is not here and we'll bring you more on this as we get. to eight people have died in the latest eruptions on indonesia's mount merapi volcano residents were forced to flee down a mountainside that whatever burning gas clouds tore through their village those who escaped are being treated for burns and breathing problems many of the dead are called to be children the death toll has now reached ninety two since the volcano began erupting last week. at least fifteen people have been killed in a landslide near the costa rican capital's on has

a rescue workers are still searching for survivors the landslide comes after days of torrential rains that flooded the nearby river around six hundred people have been forced to flee to emergency shelters. next stop the all sea close up team results on its travels this time to the tomsk region situated in the western siberia it's a place renowned as a distraction for exiles dating back to his hours days and tests also a report on how he paused still affects his present. there's a saying every times local knows god created paradise while the devil created know him near him is located in the southern part of the tomsk region difficult to get to and right smack in the middle of a swamp cut off from the rest of the world it's a place renowned as

a destination for exiles dating back to the sorry. in the early nineteenth century the population grew rapidly because of exiles to the point that every fifth resident of tom scandal surrounding areas was in exile. the last batch will form a wealthy peasant they were cooled oppositionists but in fact these people were just hardworking farmers among those peasants was nikolai gook during stalin's time forced collective farming was introduced many landowning families lost their properties and were deported to siberia his family was sent here in one nine hundred thirty one he was just four years old. in the work of your we were transported by horse drawn carriage then by railway then locked on a boat down the abra. at the destination there was nothing except burnt out forest we had to build barks of board and earth to live in when it got cold we made window panes of ice labs we had no food only dry bread it was very difficult.

well nicholai supplied was because of stalin the former soviet leader himself was banished you know rim in one thousand nine hundred twelve stalin was exiled for the sixth time and sentenced to four years in siberia he lived in this house but after only thirty nine days he escaped. from this house and ixia family were already exiles who were sent to this region and it is in this room of the state and it was here in this bed that stalin had actually slept. staal is a riot he lives on in tomsk preserved in this investigative prison museum until the one nine hundred forty s. this is a story building houses the tomsk pretrial detention center and was also headquarters of the people's commissariat for internal affairs or n.k.v.d. . here people charged with caring to revolutionary activities were kept in detention interrogated sentenced to death and there is evidence that executions

were also performed here. you know what. i like sinister ankle was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in one of stalin's gulags and five years in exile knew me in that order i was tried for treason against the motherland i told him it wasn't against the motherland it was against the government the cases and charges they made up for me were horrific. well this right here is one of the prison cells it's only eleven square metres and the crowd about fifteen to twenty people in this room . for a decision on their feet but despite the tragedies in tomsk sr e good things did come out of them. many political exiles who are well educated people who contributed a lot to developing education culture and economy in siberia december set up schools for local children exiled polish rebels develop sausage production businesses here coffee and barber shops. for citizens the past and the future are

inseparable men like alexei lookahead. i still feel the pain but i just have to carry on with life i'm eighty six and i'd like to live till i'm ninety and see what happens next said more who. while young people look back eager to learn lessons from the past. r t reporting from the tomsk region. of faith based on allison december who will host the two thousand to eighteen football world cup they see russia's bed for the tournament and it's a several kids spoke to r.t. under former head of the final vote and he tells us about the campaign to land the bear event for the first time in the country's history.

well joining us today is. the man in charge of russia. thank you for your time thank you if we could start by talking about russia's chances to win this because a lot of people see it as a two horse race between russia and england how do you write russia's chances and. unique selling points if you will first of all we have regarded this as a four horse race for two thousand and eighteen but out of these four horses i think. we have very good chances where very confident. without being overconfident of course we believe we have all it takes to win this bid or

unorganized a very good world cup one aspect is which is very important for the foot is the legacy and there we have a lot to offer i mean legacy after the world cup in russia would be immense. and we will influence not only the football development in this country but certainly in the entire region where russia is situated and exported to all our neighbors so there is another aspect where we feel quite well for is concerned about just the creation of white elephant certainly in england there's a huge english premier league that all the stadiums they use pretty much they have to build full from scratch if. you had to be able to fifteen stating you called for them that they would be able to you would be able to fill them on a regular basis and events in the life that i think russia is absolutely guaranteed with and with no white elephants because we've been carefully choosing all the

hosts it is by them having either a premier league club or the first division club so there isn't a major club or two playing in each host city and we think with the state of the art infrastructure of the attendance levels will only grow plus what we have what we have in mind in terms of design of the stadium is temporary tribunes which with which the stadiums will reach the fee for acquired levels after the world cup some of the attributes will be removed and we'll have the stadiums with the capacity that is needed in a particular region if a city needs twenty five thousand stadium well it will have exactly nothing and nothing more i can say and jestingly how will it work for a well cup in russia because you have kaliningrad you have to katherine a great distance apart similarly have dissipated and so changed logistically how will the fans be do not envision a plan where

a group match or group matches can be held to one including growth and one in new york city and board. of course this this needs actually planning through funding we can achieve more convenience for fans and the distances will be within regular limits for fee for right now we the father city that we have is only two hours by plane from moscow and that's that's not something extraordinary for a fee for. i mean look at the history of the world cup that we had we've had japan and korea we will have brazil we had south africa these are not small countries now you. competing with other leading nations has been a few spots in the press with england has not met i don't think it's a factor in our beds. i mean that we have been the focus of the british media but. i think it now will subside and people will have

other things to speak and the closer we get to the final presentation the more the presentation self will be the focus we have not been part of any. and is speculative allegations or scandals or indeed. traps. and so we don't see any reason why we shouldn't shouldn't be at least in the final in the british press they did talk about incidences of hooliganism and also racism is that initiated being brought up by fate for atonement you know. these issues are perfectly global they are not indigenous here they're not typical or characteristic of russia. these are things that are that pose universal challenge and in football. and of course as a country of one hundred forty five million people we occasionally have outbreaks

of new various negative processes of course. racism hogans are among them we do have very minor sporadic outbreaks but they do not represent a trend. just crossed the best of the thank you. more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying.